Mecklenburg County goes deep undercover – and deep into the numbers

The operation’s codename was Project Sunset, and John Allen was Mecklenburg County’s agent on the case.
He runs the numbers.
The 2009 Project Sunset assignment was one of his first undercover operations since signing on as the county’s economic development director.
The clock began running after a multinational corporation that has $110 billion in annual revenues covertly signaled ...